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These have got to be the craziest T-shirts I’ve ever seen (even more zany than the wi-fi detecting shirt), the Proximity Based Geek Lovin’ 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirt, the hearts on your chest indicate how close you are to your loved one.
Buy one of these glowing shirts for yourself, and gift one to your significant other (boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, fembot 2000…). During your normal activities two and a half pixelated hearts will light up on your shirt. Hey… you’re depressed and in need of a recharge. But get within hugging distance of your significant other wearing the matching shirt and suddenly the hearts on both of your shirts start to light up until you’re fully powered up. Go too far astray from the source of your affections and you’ll drop back down to two and a half hearts again. Got it?
Just in time for Valentines (Think Geek has a marketing department then) you can buy the t-shirts for $24.99 each, show someone you love them.
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Plants, just like humans, require oxygen in order to survive. While they release oxygen during the day whenever the process of photosynthesis occurs, they do require oxygen when there is no sunlight. Why not give them the very best with the ENKI Super O2 Watering System?
Grow greener, bigger and brighter plants with this unique watering system! The Enki Super O2 water system super-oxygenates water, so your plants produce more flowers and blooms than those watered with regular tap water.
Marketing gimmick or the real deal? At $99.95, it had better work or I want my money back.
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New Zealander, saxophonist and tinkerer Peter Davey appears to have made a Sonic Boiler, a small device that uses sound waves to boil water almost instantly. He made his first successful model 30 years ago, and has been using it ever since.
According to Davey, it’s all about the vibes. He came up with the idea after noticing his sax would cause things in the house to resonate as he played. He hasn’t revealed the secret of the boiler, but reckons that it could be manufactured for around $9 (US$7): “They could sell a million of the things in China”.
The boffins are baffled. Professor Arthur Williamson, a retired engineer, took a look. According to Stuff.co.nz,
He watched Davey boil various quantities of water, took notes of the energy used and temperatures reached. He left scratching his head.
After the amount of snake-oil perpetual motion machines we’ve seen, we’ll remain hopefully skeptical.
Sax notes lead to off-beat boiler [Stuff.co.nz via BoingBoing]
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After years searching for the perfect pointing device, did it ever strike you to wonder, "Hey, I know what we need. Inflatable mice!"
Designed by Bongkun Shin, Heungkyo Seo, Jiwoong Hwang and Wootiek Lim, the translucent plastic bags are given the breath of life in literal fashion. "As a bonus, it’s a total floaty," writes Yanko Design’s Long Tran.
Personally, I believe human interface devices are like family members: they really shouldn’t be taking care of one’s sexual needs in addition to their standard uses.
Blow-up Mouse [Yanko Design]
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This convenient Gizmo converts old 35mm slides and film negatives easily into digital images. While you could preserve your memories using a conversion service, you might have to ship off your precious photos and you’ll definitely have to turn over custody to an unknown source not to mention the cost involved. For less than $100 you can do it yourself.
Slides and negatives are placed into a tray that aligns each properly; the touch of a button scans the image instantly. It has a 5MP CMOS sensor that provides 10 bits per color channel for data conversion and uses fixed focus and automatic exposure control and color balance, resulting in clear digital images without loss of quality. It can scan images up to 1,800 dpi and uses three white LEDs as a back light source. For photo transfers and power, it has a USB cable that plugs into a PC running Windows XP (requires USB 2.0) and includes software that allows you to edit, cro p, and resize your slides as well as convert your negatives into positives.
Gimmie!
Suggested Price: $99.95
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The Samsung 820SC will be released very soon by Softbank. The 820SC offers you a 2.6-inch QVGA OLED screen, 1.96megapixel camera with auto-focus, up to 2GB microSD card, 3G connection, music player, infrared, and Bluetooth as well as a variety of colors such as black, silver, gold, and red. Look for this Samsung sometime in mid-February.
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Posted Jan 31st 2008 1:58AM by Steven Kim
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Lookee here, the K20D, Pentax’s flagship entry in the DSLR race and replacement for the K10D. Good looking stuff here, with the requisite step up to a proper command dial in place of buttons on the back of that dust-proof (not just resistant) and weather-resistant body. But the beauty’s more than skin deep — check out the 14.6-megapixel CMOS sensor, Live View 2.7-inch LCD and ISO sensitivity that peaks out at 3,200 (thanks, CMOS!). And in case you were wondering, no “scene” modes at this level, either.
Gallery: Hands-on with the Pentax K20D DSLR
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The Samsung F490 is a finger touch handset offering a 5 megapixel camera as well as the following features:
* GSM/EDGE connections on 900, 1800, 1900MHz bands
* UMTS/HSDPA networks on 2100MHz band
* 262k, 3.2″, 16:9 widescreen display
* 130MB storage
* microSD card slot
* record QVGA resolution videos at 15 frames per second, playback VGA resolution, 30fps videos
* integrated Google search
* Samsung’s Croix user interface
* Bluetooth stereo
* 3.5mm audio jack
* music player
Via MobileBurn.
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Posted Jan 31st 2008 2:10AM by Steven Kim
Filed under: Digital Cameras
We got our hands on what’s probably one of the most anticipated cameras of the show, the Canon EOS Rebel XSi DSLR. The predecessor XTi model was crazy successful, so smart money says that the step up to a 3-inch live view LCD, 12.2-megapixel CMOS sensor, 9-point AF and Canon’s DIGIC III processing will help continue the trend. That’s a lot of features packed into this “starter” DSLR from Canon. With this body and all the lenses Canon has, this is one entry level that most folks will never need to leave.
Gallery: Hands-on with the Canon Rebel XSi DSLR
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I love seeing over-engineering in gadgets and the TV Compass SLR 1500 is over-engineered in a way that is as beautiful as it is mind-blowing. To look at it from a distance you could be forgiven for thinking that it is some sort of candy red Skype phone or a UMPC gone wrong.
It accesses the Internet through wireless B and G, has a QVGA screen. Optionally, it can run flash and read RSS feeds. Why would you want RSS feeds in a remote you ask? I am guessing it is so that you can feed program information to the remote. Remote codes for up to 24 devices can be downloaded from the Internet. I think they would have done well to jam a speaker and mic into this thing as well, just to give it added (though admittedly unnecessary) Skype phone functionality.
Currently, the price for this sophisticated remote still remains unknown. Anyway, TVcompass will not sell it directly. The device will be marketed by satellite and cable operators, content distributors, and OEMs etc. (TechChee)
